Quotes About Prayer

In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.

How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

Our great daystar floods the Earth with fire in this season of summer. The heart of the sun prays at forty million degrees; grant me a heart of such fierce fire as I now begin this new day in an act of devotion and adoration. Wrap me in the silence of your Spirit and lead me into quiet prayer.

May this morning prayer give me the energy to act at all times this day with love and kindness. May I treat each person and each living being as a brother or sister, as a member of your sacred family.

You who alone know the secrets of hearts, look with love upon my feeble attempts at silent prayer. I am grateful that you do not measure my effort but look only upon my love for you.

Almighty Father, hear our cry, As o'er the trackless deep we roam; Be Thou our haven always nigh, On homeless waters, Thou our home.

These poems have come from a great distance to find you. I think of Malebranche's maxim, "Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.

to be Thine evermore; youth mingled with thy youth, Age with thine age; in thy grave mine; above, Spirit beside thy spirit; - this the love God teacheth man to pray for!

But Lord,Be merciful to me, a fool!

My case is bad. Lord, be my advocate.My sin is red: I'm under God's arrest.

Prayer serves as a reminder, that you are not God

It doesn't take much to become thrown. All it takes is to put the world before God. Over and over, we fall from grace, and over and over we are redeemed 'as' we pray.

Prayer is your treasure here on Earth! With it, you are never alone. Without it, it's easy to get lost. This is why the wise make time for prayer. And that is time always well spent.

The most important choice we have is whether to put God or the world first. If we put the world first, we fall and move into bondage. This happens over and over again until it is learned - there is only partial satisfaction here. For complete satisfaction, we must know what we are in God. The world pulls us in and we forget. We go to sleep and remain in bondage. Prayer is a potent tool. We ask for nothing but to know God's holy presence and when it happens, the Earth trembles

Yet not by Vedas, nor from sacrifice, Nor penance, nor gift-giving, nor with prayer Shall any so behold, as thou hast seen! Only by fullest service, perfect faith, And uttermost surrender am I known And seen, and entered into, Indian Prince! Who doeth all for Me; who findeth Me In all; adoreth always; loveth all Which I have made, and Me, for Love's sole end That man, Arjuna! unto Me doth wend.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

I sat alone in that stupid forest asking God to tell me what to do.

Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

Every petition that is offered to God in faith, and with a true heart, will be answered. Such prayer is never lost; but to claim that it will always be answered in the very way and for the particular thing that we desire, is presumption. God is too wise to err, and too good to withhold any good thing from them that walk uprightly. Then do not fear to trust him even though you do not see the immediate answer to your prayers. Rely upon his sure promise, "Ask, and ye shall receive.